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Hello, in this episode I will give you a few design tips on how to arrange the space in front of the house and I will also tell you what is better to avoid. The front gardens are different, small, large, sometimes there is a situation when the building is located deep in the gorge and the space between the building and the gate occupies most of our garden, most of our gorge. The front gardens are small, large, narrow, wide, so we approach the topic very individually, but in this video I will give you such general tips that refer to each space. The front garden, i.e. the front garden, is the most important part of our garden. It is our business card. Planning, designing the front garden is worth starting at the stage of planning, designing the driveway. Let's not forget that there are passages under the driveway so that light and water can pass. Lighting in the garden is very important. Such a tip, if you are at the stage of designing, planning the driveway, despite the fact that, for example, now there is a fashion for a specific cube, for colors, some patterns, I will tell you that from the perspective of years, the simpler, the better. A simple pattern, a simple shape, a neutral color will always look good. For example, a cube of this type, it doesn't look good after a few years, and designing a plant to such a shape, Of course, everyone chooses what they like, what they like, but I will tell you honestly, from the perspective of years, as a landscape architect with over 15 years of experience, the simpler, the better. Simple shapes, neutral colors always age well. Changing the cube in front of the house is already a problem. First, when we plan the space in front of the house, it is worth looking at the elements that we want to have in the front garden on the basis of such an architectural one. What does it mean? Let's not look at the plants in terms of detail, i.e. what shape they have, what color, we will deal with this later, just pay attention to their shape. Are they more conical, conical or columnar? If, for example, we have a round window in front of the house, it is worth arranging the plant or some decorative element to refer to the shape of the round window, i.e. we also refer to the architecture of the building. The color scheme is also important. It is worth referring coloristically to the elevation, to the colors of the window sill, roof, armrests and, of course, the pillars. In this example, we see that there are several references to the architecture of the building. Once that the decorative grass refers to the roofs on the roof, the color scheme of the blooming plants refers to the color scheme of the building, and the cone vines also refer to the building. When we design, plan elements of small architecture, e.g. trellis, pergola or garbage bins, it is of course also worth referring to what is on the building and right next to it. So, for example, when we want some pergola at the entrance, it's nice to refer coloristically, for example, to the window sill. Secondly, when we plan a plant, remember the seasonality, the variability of nature. It is worth planning such plants so that they are decorative all season, but personally, I would advise against planting the entire front garden with only cedars and winter green plants, because it will be boring, monotonous. It is worth remembering and planning plants that appear early in the spring, in the spring, in the summer, in the autumn, in the winter, plants that change color. It is worth taking into account plants that change. More about specific species of plants I will tell you later. Please, do not plant cedars on the front of the house. Once upon a time, these plants were planted in front of the house to decorate it with Christmas lights. They create an atmosphere, it is nice and pleasant, but after many years, these trees grow out a lot. They curl from the bottom, lose the twigs and twigs, so they do not look good, but they also grow so high that they often shade the houses of the apartment. We do not need cedars on the front to decorate the Christmas garden. Okay, but how to choose plants from an architectural point of view and to decorate the whole season? And here we have a few examples. There are trees, leafy, the leaves will fall, but the shape of the tree is decorative, especially since the plants are illuminated by reflectors from below. Around the rhubarbs, as such an accent and also a decorative form, a winter green tree is planned. However, on this discount, despite the fact that most of the plants are cedars and leafy trees, wintergreen decorative grass, but also pines, pine trees are planned. If I remember correctly, this is how it was planned here. We do not necessarily have to plant, design cedar plants. There is a lot of cedars and wintergreen grass. When we plan plants for the front garden, it is worth starting searching for trees, then focus on bushes, grass, pines, onion plants, and at the end of the year. Thirdly, proportions. It is worth adjusting the plants as well as the small architecture to the size of the building. When we have, for example, a long entrance, a narrow discount, small, decent plants will not look the best. I know what the approach is, because it seems that large plants will take up space, and it works completely the other way around. However, it is worth planning on such larger spaces, larger plants, shrubs, mulberry trees or some flowering trees, for example. When planning a discount in front of the house, at the bridge, it is worth referring to the body of the building or to the very bridge. For example, in this case, if we set a narrow discount, it looks to me visually like crookedly fastened buttons. Visually, I am immediately forced to make a wide discount, to the width of the cube, to the outer edge. I often come across something like this, that when there is a long discount from the gate to the building, low, spiky bushes are often planted, some needles, e.g. pine or thuja, and they are planted at equal intervals. And nothing grows under it. A spilled pebble, possibly some low plants. And it does not look the best proportionally. We will come back to the planting of such lizards, because this refers to the next, fourth point. When we plan such medium-high plantings, it is worth remembering to differentiate the height of the plants. On the subject of choosing, composing plants, in terms of their shape, I have already told you about it, I will link the film in the description. So let's remember that we plant one plant height, to choose, for example, low, spiky, and some plant that will be a filling, such a transitional element. It is worth focusing on three plant heights, on such plantings. Such a tip, if we have a long discount at the cube, and we do not have an idea for a plant, it is worth starting planting from the middle of such a discount, heading towards the house and towards the gate. It often happens that randomly bought plants are randomly planted on such a discount. They will grow over time, but a huge mess will be made after a while. Well, overplanting will start, how to compose such plants, so it is worth starting planting from the middle, and to such plants already choose the rest. As for proportions, I have one more current example. I am currently designing a front garden for a friend, and she wants to make a narrow strip of plantings along the cube, on the side of the building. I'm trying to convince her to either give it up or plant the whole thing. Especially since more or less in the middle of the discount there is a kitchen window, so there would be a place to plant some trees, so that you could admire them through the window. When we look at this strip, it does not align with the edge of the terrace, so it also looks to me like crookedly fastened buttons. A strange comparison, but that's how I feel. Fourth, guiding the eye. When we enter the plot, we pass the gate, we go straight to the door, so plantings should lead us straight. And in the case of such plantings, which I mentioned earlier, i.e. spherical trees, shrubs planted at equal intervals, or planted small bushes, but with variable colors, i.e. yellow, red, yellow, red, our eyes start to go crazy, jumping from plant to plant. And it's good for the eye to be straight, or slanted from point to point and straight to the door. As I mentioned about shrubs, small grafted trees planted at equal intervals, well, this reminds me of lighting at the airport. And now let's take care of the lighting. Of course, it should lead us from the gate to the building, but fortunately, more and more often it departs from the protruding high posts, just at equal intervals. Well, let's be honest, such posts are not very decorative. Besides, their proportions, in terms of vegetation, are also not the best. They don't look the best. If we like such posts, they give an interesting effect on the cube, it is worth planting plants of a similar height next to them. Cover them a little. Of course, I am talking about such a solution of post lighting when the discount is quite long, the distance between the gate and the building. I would also consider point lighting with a reflector from below, some larger shrubs or trees. It will really break through such lighting streams. Here, however, we have an example where customers wanted high-profile lighting posts, such 45 cm, but we see that the distance between the building and the gate is not too big, so these posts would not look good either. So I proposed such a solution to illuminate the trees with reflectors. And so much light is enough. Especially since there are posts on the building. Entering the house in the evening, when the plants are illuminated in this way, there is such a nice, pleasant atmosphere. Besides, they saved a lot on the postings. Fifth, views, i.e. viewing axes. We often plan the area in front of the house by leaving the house or looking out the window. We do not pay attention to the space from the gate or gate. It is also often the case that there is a neighbor in front of our post and we want to cover ourselves a little. When planning planting, it is worth leaving a little open space so that we can see who is coming to our post. When planning specific plants in the post, under the window or at the entrance, but also at the gate, let's remember that they grow so that they do not cover the windows, the entrance to the post or the house. I personally like the concept of open ramps, i.e. in such an American style. What does it mean? There are no gates, gates, fences. There is a ramp, lawn, ramps, and the post is fenced at the edges of the building. When I design over 15 years, only one client was willing to such a solution. In other cases, if it was possible to use something like this, everyone prefers to fence off because they feel safer. But no matter what fence someone will want to take, it will come in anyway. But everyone has different approaches to this issue. Let's not forget about decorative elements, but also small architecture. Small architecture, for example trellises or pergolas, as long as they can lead us to the house, they can be a really interesting element. So nice, especially since we can additionally illuminate them, i.e. they will be decorative all year round. It is worth planning a post on the front where we can compose seasonal, one-year plants and change the plantings in such pots. Or plant skeletal plants, e.g. some small trees or bushes and add some other plants to them every year, just change the composition. Pots, of course, can be colorfully matched to the cube, to the vegetation, to the building, to the color of the building, but they can also be contrasting, i.e. when it is gray, gloomy, snow falls, such pots can be a very interesting decorative element of our garden. An important tip, if we have a planned trash can in the corner of the plot, and between the trash can and the entrance to the house there is a planned lawn, then these two points are worth connecting with each other. Because we can take out the garbage when it rains, i.e. we will immediately apply mud to the house, but also quite quickly we will have crevices, and a crevice on the lawn front does not look too nice. What plants do I recommend? Very often customers ask me that I would design, plan a place for a catalpa. But I always mention that it is a plant that you let go very late in winter and it is quite a fragile tree. It breaks very easily and quickly at the spruces, especially since there are more and more of these spruces every year, so I would pay attention to it, but in fact the tree is very nice. It is worth planning flowering plants on the front. And from such flowering trees I recommend acacia, Japanese cherry, apricot, if we have a small front garden and we want to plant a tree, we often look for trees, grafted, spherical. Personally, I recommend a single cherry, because it is the only tree that does not require any major cutting to have a beautiful spherical shape. It has a very nice bark and blooms beautifully. From the bushes I recommend acacia, ligustre, bush, jasmine, lilac, tawu, various berberis, and such classics as hortensia and rosemary. From winter-green grass, I recommend acacia, evergreen oats, astringent and turric. I recommend acacia, which bloom from spring to autumn, provided that we cut them when they are about 8-10 cm in spring, sage, which must be cut after blooming to bloom again, spruce, rudbeckia, Patagonian verbena, budgerigars, which can be winter-green and when they freeze a bit, they bounce back very quickly in winter and we can buy and grow them on a wonderfully fragrant variety. I also recommend macierzanka, which is winter-green, chrysanthemums, which are also winter-green, can be a perfect replacement for beech, and I also recommend pachysandra, only in such more shaded nooks and crannies of our garden. You will also see the most beautiful blooming trees in this video. Enjoy your work in the garden, may it grow green!